Artist vs. Author: Exhibit and Sale by Illustration House
Why 鈥渧ersus鈥� ? Aren鈥檛 the artist and author on the same creative team? For every case like F. Scott Fitzgerald gushing that Henry Raleigh鈥檚 drawings are 鈥渢he best I鈥檝e ever seen鈥�, we have also seen the author鈥檚 cherished visual concepts complicated by the illustrator, who may alter a story鈥檚 point of view, elevate a character, or provide missing settings and costumes.
The illustrator is drawing upon a different vocabulary, a different history, a different culture. Any synergy is missed when an image-less edition is published. Then again, is the clarity that illustration brings even wanted? J. D. Salinger famously resisted all attempts to illustrate him.
This relationship between the co-creators of magazine and book entertainment is rarely explored in exhibitions, as often the art and literature worlds ignore each other. In this exhibit and sale, we see dozens of these relationships, from William Shakespeare as seen by Arthur Keller, to Toni Morrison as seen by Thomas Blackshear II, to Arthur Conan Doyle as seen by Sergio Martinez 鈥� and from comedy to fantasy to westerns to mystery. Artists and authors alike range from the famous to the obscure.
Curator of 鈥淎rtist vs Author鈥� Roger Reed, explores this interface, to bring the viewer back to the original marriage, for better or worse, of image and text.
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Why 鈥渧ersus鈥� ? Aren鈥檛 the artist and author on the same creative team? For every case like F. Scott Fitzgerald gushing that Henry Raleigh鈥檚 drawings are 鈥渢he best I鈥檝e ever seen鈥�, we have also seen the author鈥檚 cherished visual concepts complicated by the illustrator, who may alter a story鈥檚 point of view, elevate a character, or provide missing settings and costumes.
The illustrator is drawing upon a different vocabulary, a different history, a different culture. Any synergy is missed when an image-less edition is published. Then again, is the clarity that illustration brings even wanted? J. D. Salinger famously resisted all attempts to illustrate him.
This relationship between the co-creators of magazine and book entertainment is rarely explored in exhibitions, as often the art and literature worlds ignore each other. In this exhibit and sale, we see dozens of these relationships, from William Shakespeare as seen by Arthur Keller, to Toni Morrison as seen by Thomas Blackshear II, to Arthur Conan Doyle as seen by Sergio Martinez 鈥� and from comedy to fantasy to westerns to mystery. Artists and authors alike range from the famous to the obscure.
Curator of 鈥淎rtist vs Author鈥� Roger Reed, explores this interface, to bring the viewer back to the original marriage, for better or worse, of image and text.
Artists on show
- Adrien Moreau
- Albert Dorne
- Alfred Charles Parker
- Alice Bolingroke Woodward
- Arthur Ignatius Keller
- Austin Briggs
- Charles Dudouyt
- Charles Edward Chambers
- Charles Livingston Bull
- Charles Santore
- Dean Cornwell
- Dean Ellis
- Dick Stone
- Don Crowley
- Don Ivan Punchatz
- Ellen Wetherald Ahrens
- Fred Ludekens
- Frederick Coffay Yohn
- George Brehm
- George Hood
- Gordon Grant
- Harold von Schmidt
- Harriet Roosevelt Richards
- Harrison Cady
- Henry Clarence Pitz
- Henry Patrick Raleigh
- Hugh Thomson
- Jacques Wagrez
- James McConnell
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- John Falter
- Joseph Clement Coll
- Lynd Ward
- Maurice Sendak
- Norman Price
- Oscar Liebman
- Peter Caras
- Robert Baxter
- Robert Lawson
- Robert Stanley
- Seymour Chwast
- Thomas Blackshear II
- Wallace Morgan
- William Hatherell
- William Russell Flint
- Zyg Brunner
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